I'm still eager to see PhysX running on my dual 8800M GTX laptop. I've run all the drivers from 177.35 up and I'm running the 8.06.12 PhysX drivers as required.
Apparently it's just the mobile versions:(
I have plenty of users who pick passwords like login:"enderandrew" password:"Enderandrew1" and next month it'll be "Enderandrew2".
Once a month, we run a crack using user's names and details dictionary from the HR system (jumbled to not disclose specific information) and do a 30-minute run. If you're password is cracked in the first 5 minutes you'll get a personal (low key) visit, anything found after that is cert-signed email requesting a change of password to something not using such identifiable data.
We also talk to staff every six months about different password strategies, like passphrases with numbers in between some words
Without bulk arrangements, this is the price for non-Australian traffic. My ISP balances this by directly peering (for $500 per year) with other ISPs in the state, thereby bypassing Telstra, Optus and AAPT carriers.
The figures are 2 years old, but they're still fairly high. These prices (and our low population density) are why Australia is the somewhere near the arse end of the internet. It's only through the larger non-carrier ISPs putting money towards peerng arrangments, their own DSLAMs, their own backhaul, and soon, a rival intercontinental pipe that we're getting better.
sigh...
Power, water, petrol, gas - they all cost per quantity because someone upstream pays by quantity. Why do you want the internet to be any different?
Because it IS different. In those cases something is actually consumed. Barring electricity, nothing is actually consumed when you 'use' bandwidth.
Bah, semantics... Explain exactly how transferring data is not consuming resources, since not only is there upstream bandwidth bills, but there are ISP employees, power (not just for switches/routers, but offices), insurance, advertising, maintenance costs, rates/rent for buildings...
I pay my ISP for 80GB download, my ISP pays 15 cents per megabyte to Southern Cross cable for the link to the US and 14 cents per megabyte to SingTel for the link to Singapore. If I overuse my quota (consume more than my share of traffic) it comes out of my ISPs profits. If my ISP continuously sees me overusing resources, I am no longer a reasonable risk and either I get booted or pay more. It's also something I've willingly agreed to in the Acceptable Use Policy, since the finite bandwidth resources of the SXC and Singtel link do have a price, and it's common sense to me.
This is more like getting a license plate to drive a particular car on the street ( excise tax . It really doesn't cost the state anymore if you drive 10000 miles, or 10000 people drive 1 mile, the road is already there and it costs the same for upkeep. Its a flat rate. Just don't let more people on it then is safe. ( ie. lane restrictions. only in this case, you can lease 2 lanes if you need them ) Wrong, your license plate doesn't require further resources to exist.
'Fuel for your car' is a better example. If you drive at 50mph your fuel lasts longer than if you drive at 150mph. If I want to drive at 80mph along freeways then I should expect to see less distance per dollar of fuel.
I pay for 40G state-based traffic and 40G external traffic at 12Mbps. Once I use that quota, I'm shaped to 128Kbps - usable but annoying. It definitely dissuades overzealous usage since even banking sites not download at double dial up speed.
By your standards we should all be limited to less than 512Kbs again so we can download to our hearts content. It's a pity that doesn't work since everyone wants faster downloads.
Power, water, petrol, gas - they all cost per quantity because someone upstream pays by quantity. Why do you want the internet to be any different?
Over subscription is a balancing act. I'm downloading at the moment, however the business around the block is not (since it's 12am here at the moment). To provide value for money, the management of subscriptions to capacity should be balanced - and like any mismanagement in business, doing it wrong will push your company to the wall.
On a tangent, the Australian consumer watchdog (ACCC) now polices so-called "unlimited" advertisements and plans as not truthful.
Joker shits me... anytime there was a support query or we needed to transfer a domain with non-current details the turnaround was in the order of weeks.
For the few customers we've taken over with domain issues, this wasn't acceptable by any means...
Sorry, but my experiences are the other way around.
My Dell XPS 1710 has a properly supported set of Vista drivers. I bundled Vista Ultimate 64 , tried Vista 32, tried Vista 32 SP1 and a two weeks ago I downgraded purely because Vista doesn't like changing networks, doesn't like notebook battery life, doesn't like mapped drives and VPNs... and makes changing admin settings painful even for someone used to Vista.
I miss the autosearch (both in Office and the Start Menu) and the prefetch cache, but it doesn't outweigh the fact it slows not just the machine, but slows down my workflow - and that's something the benchmarks fail to slow.
I'm OS agnostic as well, but Vista seems to be as rough around the edges as any other OS.
My Vista install occasionally picks a default route of the router and 0.0.0.0 (yes, two default routes), especially after hibernation.
Running "route delete 0.0.0.0 & route delete 0.0.0.0 & ipconfig/renew" seems to do the trick, but really, you'd think a decent DHCP client would be essential when *everywhere* uses it... Two "Reliability and Performance" patches have made squat of a difference.
In Australia, almost 80% of traffic is P2P. When a local torrent site disappeared, traffic is our state dropped by 15% overall (until everyone went back to international sources) Unless ISPs are willing to buy expensive P2P caching systems (and open themselves to the **AA) there will be congestion.
The other big fault of the internet, is everything is now dynamic content. The "?" in the above URL forces the page not to be cached (it's the default even in Squid), and it's the same for all the CMS and blog-based sites out there.
Things are not as simple as they first seem.
On the flip-side kudos to Akamai for spreading the internet downloads love geographically:)
Actually Symantec LiveState or Acronis TrueImage Enterprise...
Both use VSS or low level agents to create images without downing the servers, and both allow restores from a SMB share.
Worth my weight in gold when multiple drives die in a RAID, and it's end of school year (certificates, reports, Curriculam Council census data - some with legal deadlines)
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Yeah, and look who's principled code accounts for a metric truckload of commercial code.
Windows 2000's TCP stack became reliable once they inserted large chunks of BSD code to get things done. And all BSD gets back is FUD.
Actually, I can understand their point of view...
What I can't understand is why they don't just allow the R18+ (like movies) and be done with it.
They still have the power to refuse classification if it's featuring illegal or seriously freaky shit.
I use Geode's in quite a few embedded systems, and TBH I haven't played with an Atom yet...
But the VIAs try hard to be something they're not, so for the purpose they're intended for... they're not worthy.
Yeah...
Via CPUs are crap, VIA chipsets are extra crap, and VIA video blows chunks.
nVidia have stuck to the things they do well.
It'll have to be Vista 64-bit...
:P
Under Vista 32-bit you're left with only 640K after removing the video memory allocations.
Us normal SLi users win with only 3.2GB left
I'm still eager to see PhysX running on my dual 8800M GTX laptop. I've run all the drivers from 177.35 up and I'm running the 8.06.12 PhysX drivers as required. :(
Apparently it's just the mobile versions
How long since you've been at the coalface?
I have plenty of users who pick passwords like login:"enderandrew" password:"Enderandrew1" and next month it'll be "Enderandrew2".
Once a month, we run a crack using user's names and details dictionary from the HR system (jumbled to not disclose specific information) and do a 30-minute run. If you're password is cracked in the first 5 minutes you'll get a personal (low key) visit, anything found after that is cert-signed email requesting a change of password to something not using such identifiable data.
We also talk to staff every six months about different password strategies, like passphrases with numbers in between some words
Without bulk arrangements, this is the price for non-Australian traffic. My ISP balances this by directly peering (for $500 per year) with other ISPs in the state, thereby bypassing Telstra, Optus and AAPT carriers.
The figures are 2 years old, but they're still fairly high. These prices (and our low population density) are why Australia is the somewhere near the arse end of the internet. It's only through the larger non-carrier ISPs putting money towards peerng arrangments, their own DSLAMs, their own backhaul, and soon, a rival intercontinental pipe that we're getting better.
Bah, semantics...
Explain exactly how transferring data is not consuming resources, since not only is there upstream bandwidth bills, but there are ISP employees, power (not just for switches/routers, but offices), insurance, advertising, maintenance costs, rates/rent for buildings...
I pay my ISP for 80GB download, my ISP pays 15 cents per megabyte to Southern Cross cable for the link to the US and 14 cents per megabyte to SingTel for the link to Singapore. If I overuse my quota (consume more than my share of traffic) it comes out of my ISPs profits. If my ISP continuously sees me overusing resources, I am no longer a reasonable risk and either I get booted or pay more. It's also something I've willingly agreed to in the Acceptable Use Policy, since the finite bandwidth resources of the SXC and Singtel link do have a price, and it's common sense to me.
This is more like getting a license plate to drive a particular car on the street ( excise tax . It really doesn't cost the state anymore if you drive 10000 miles, or 10000 people drive 1 mile, the road is already there and it costs the same for upkeep. Its a flat rate. Just don't let more people on it then is safe. ( ie. lane restrictions. only in this case, you can lease 2 lanes if you need them ) Wrong, your license plate doesn't require further resources to exist.
'Fuel for your car' is a better example. If you drive at 50mph your fuel lasts longer than if you drive at 150mph. If I want to drive at 80mph along freeways then I should expect to see less distance per dollar of fuel.
Most Australian ISPs do this already.
I pay for 40G state-based traffic and 40G external traffic at 12Mbps. Once I use that quota, I'm shaped to 128Kbps - usable but annoying.
It definitely dissuades overzealous usage since even banking sites not download at double dial up speed.
I would love to see this happen, but since most residential routers don't do QoS tagging, they just rate-limit by port, it'll just be a pipe dream.
The slippery slope follow-on to this idea is "shouldn't P2P always be a low priority?"
By your standards we should all be limited to less than 512Kbs again so we can download to our hearts content. It's a pity that doesn't work since everyone wants faster downloads.
Power, water, petrol, gas - they all cost per quantity because someone upstream pays by quantity. Why do you want the internet to be any different?
Over subscription is a balancing act. I'm downloading at the moment, however the business around the block is not (since it's 12am here at the moment). To provide value for money, the management of subscriptions to capacity should be balanced - and like any mismanagement in business, doing it wrong will push your company to the wall.
On a tangent, the Australian consumer watchdog (ACCC) now polices so-called "unlimited" advertisements and plans as not truthful.
Joker shits me... anytime there was a support query or we needed to transfer a domain with non-current details the turnaround was in the order of weeks.
For the few customers we've taken over with domain issues, this wasn't acceptable by any means...
Sorry, but my experiences are the other way around.
My Dell XPS 1710 has a properly supported set of Vista drivers. I bundled Vista Ultimate 64 , tried Vista 32, tried Vista 32 SP1 and a two weeks ago I downgraded purely because Vista doesn't like changing networks, doesn't like notebook battery life, doesn't like mapped drives and VPNs... and makes changing admin settings painful even for someone used to Vista.
I miss the autosearch (both in Office and the Start Menu) and the prefetch cache, but it doesn't outweigh the fact it slows not just the machine, but slows down my workflow - and that's something the benchmarks fail to slow.
I'm OS agnostic as well, but Vista seems to be as rough around the edges as any other OS.
/renew" seems to do the trick, but really, you'd think a decent DHCP client would be essential when *everywhere* uses it... Two "Reliability and Performance" patches have made squat of a difference.
My Vista install occasionally picks a default route of the router and 0.0.0.0 (yes, two default routes), especially after hibernation.
Running "route delete 0.0.0.0 & route delete 0.0.0.0 & ipconfig
I recently participated in a Roy Morgan (Australia-wide) Media Diary survey...
:P
"Please exclude any programs that you recorded or watched on video."
Basically rules out anything downloaded, time shifted or recorded for later on... *THAT* is 1960's thinking.
Apparently I don't watch *ANY* television...
Microsoft have already worked with standards...
Office 97 saved Word 95/6.0 documents as RTF - and that is as close to a standard as Microsoft will ever get...
In Australia, almost 80% of traffic is P2P. When a local torrent site disappeared, traffic is our state dropped by 15% overall (until everyone went back to international sources)
:)
Unless ISPs are willing to buy expensive P2P caching systems (and open themselves to the **AA) there will be congestion.
The other big fault of the internet, is everything is now dynamic content. The "?" in the above URL forces the page not to be cached (it's the default even in Squid), and it's the same for all the CMS and blog-based sites out there.
Things are not as simple as they first seem.
On the flip-side kudos to Akamai for spreading the internet downloads love geographically
We Whingepoolians can't limit ourselves to one audience!
Actually Symantec LiveState or Acronis TrueImage Enterprise...
Both use VSS or low level agents to create images without downing the servers, and both allow restores from a SMB share.
Worth my weight in gold when multiple drives die in a RAID, and it's end of school year (certificates, reports, Curriculam Council census data - some with legal deadlines)
OLE, DDE, etc...
:S
People's pretty WordArt wouldn't work otherwise
Wait until you see how Publisher files are constructed - AFAICR each text box is a mini Publisher OLE object and let's not start on the picture boxes
I feel sick just thinking about it
Meh, I only watched DS9 because it was a cheap knockoff that reminded me how good B5 was.
:P)
(Which is likely to happen when writers from the two series share house
I prefer UpdateHF.vbs
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Once you've installed Installer 3.1 and BITS2 , it downloads and installs all the updates from the Windows update site
http://www.wsus.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=6
In certains episodes, yes :S
Or just that you're constantly being twarted by a skanky ho in too much makeup?